The majority of the army (Thousand Sons, Sorcerers, Terminators) have silly invulnerable saves (3+ and 4+) and good standard saves (2+ and 3+) while other units are just tough to kill while being able to fire armour piercing rounds. A number of them (D3) will be able to infiltrate due to Ahriman's Warlord Trait.

Cultists infiltrate (x60) with Dark Apostle and charge into CC as quickly as possible. Aspiring champions challenging the enemy IC's / leader units with the Apostle using heroic intervention and mace of rip-and-tear. (total of x183 attacks on the charge if we pretend no casualties)

Rhinos with Thousand Sons roll up to shoot those units not engaged with the swarm with their AP3 guns and Sorcerer spells

Ahriman does, what Ahriman wants to do with his 3 witchfire-per-turn +1 other spell abilities

Heldrake uses torrent AP3 baleflamer to melt faces while also using meteoric descent to rip-and-tear fliers / tanks / what ever is in the way.

Obliterators deep strike to take out enemy armour / plug and gaps

Warp Talons deep strike on something soft to blind them and then rip-and-tear. Being Initiative 5, they will sort out most power-armour.

Terminators go Elite/HQ/IC/Tank hunting with their Sorcerer buddy

Havocs have a cup of tea and take pot-shots at vehicles / fliers

The tactics are there for a wander around the board - maybe combat squad them for objectives and general shooting

So, ideas? opinions? suggestions?

Regards,

Wulfmar

Amoungst a hundred men, there may be none fit for the Adeptus Astartes.Amoungst a hundred space marines, there may be one fit for Deathwatch.

I'm not hugely familiar with Chaos, but perhaps a bit more anti-tank firepower, so far the only options are Obliterators and Havocs. Can you squeeze in a melta gun or two into one of your rhino mounted troops?

You have a good number of troops and options for dealing with horde and MEQ, just a bit more anti-tank in case you find some bloke has brought along Guard or a pair of Land Raiders or something.

Haha I would have been tempted to raid the ELC, but fortunately GW has seen fit to bless us with a Maulerfiend model (it's bundled with the Forgefiend box). Using the kit for the Mauler only leaves some Forge parts behind that look especially useful for making an awesome Daemon Prince (with a little fiddling and a bucket-o-green stuff)

Amoungst a hundred men, there may be none fit for the Adeptus Astartes.Amoungst a hundred space marines, there may be one fit for Deathwatch.